Schematron 2025 is the latest edition of the Schematron validation language, which checks XML documents against business rules. It extends the validation provided by languages such as Document Type Definitions (DTD), W3C XML Schema, and RELAX NG, giving you the ability to check your XML documents for compliance with rules that can be difficult, if not impossible, to check with the other validation languages.
Schematron 2025: A Language for Validating XML explains the language in detail, including everything you need to know to move from earlier version so Schematron to Schematron 2025, and contains many examples to highlight its features. Anyone who uses Schematron or would like to begin using it will find a wealth of information.
Date: Thursday April 9, 2026, 10:00 PDT, 1:00PM EDT
Join Sarah Johnson, author of Content-First Design and founder and strategic consultant at Content-First Design, as she introduces the content-first double diamond framework—a practical approach for stopping meaning drift before it disrupts your user experience. You’ll learn what meaning drift is, why it happens, and how unchecked misalignment in messaging impacts both customers and teams.
Sarah will walk you through actionable steps to implement a content-first mindset, share real-world case studies of organizations who’ve succeeded with this method, and provide two valuable resources: The Content-first Design Readiness Checklist and 7 Signals Your Organization has Meaning Drift. See how cross-functional collaboration around content leads to stronger, more consistent communication across every touch point.
Women in Technical Communication: From typewriters to touchscreens: a history by the women who did the work
Women have shaped the field of technical communication for over 50 years. Women in Technical Communication presents, in their own words, the stories of the women who pioneered the field and those who are carrying it into the future.
For the first time, the stories of the women who built the profession of technical communication have been brought together. These women helped shape how the world understands technology.
Spanning fifty years of innovation, from typewriters to personal computers to smartphones, these first-hand stories reveal how women in technical communication carved out careers, led change, and defined a field in constant motion.
Told in their own words, this anthology celebrates the pioneers who turned communication into a bridge between people and technology.
As of January 6, 2026, Amazon has restored direct sales of the print edition for most of our books. Be aware that this status has changed several times over the last few months and will likely change again.
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The second edition of Sharon Burton and Bonni Graham Gonzalez’s book Engineering Words is now available.
Engineering Words draws on the authors’ extensive experience as technical communicators and teachers of a popular class in technical communication for engineers at the University of California, Riverside, to present a comprehensive introduction to communicating in the business world. This book covers everything from the basics of clear writing to résumés to cover letters to requirements documents to presentations and much more.
This second edition expands to cover writing tools (including AI tools), functioning in today’s workplace, ethics, and selling your ideas. In addition, it has been extensively updated with more examples and references.
Engineering Words can be used as a textbook for classes that train engineers to be effective communicators. It can also serve as a self-study text that even experienced engineers will find useful for improving their communication skills.
On June 9, 2025, her birthday, Char James-Tanny passed away. She was an early XML Press author (Learning Author-it) and contributor to The Language of Technical Communication, The Language of Content Strategy, and The Language of Learning.
Char was well-known among tech comm specialists for her broad expertise across the full spectrum of technical communication, […]
The LavaCon Conference on Content Strategy will be held Oct 5-8, 2025, in Atlanta Georgia. XML Press authors speaking at LavaCon this year include:
Noz Urbina: Content Strategy Bootcamp (half-day pre-conference workshop with Joy Herbers) Sarah Johnson: Content First Design (full-day pre-conference workshop) Scott Abel: Top Five Ways to Harness the Power of AI Co-Pilots […]
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Join Alan J Porter, founder and chief of The Content Pool, as he delves into the transformative power of effective storytelling within the realm of content personalization. Discover what makes a story not just good but impactful and how it can be tailored to resonate on a personal level with your audience.
“If a digital experience is a conversation with a user, how can you have that conversation if you don’t know what the words are?” — Sarah Johnson
Larry Swanson, host of the podcast Content Strategy Insights, recently interviewed Sarah Johnson, author of Content-first Design, which is coming soon from XML Press.
How often have you seen a proposed web design that looks nice, but is filled with dummy Lorem Ipsum text? You know it looks nice, but even if you know the purpose of the site, it can be difficult, if not impossible, to see how the site will work for its intended users.
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“I love the examples you give from both the real world and pop culture” Lee Engfer, editor and writer at Mayo Clinic
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Char James-Tanny
On June 9, 2025, her birthday, Char James-Tanny passed away. She was an early XML Press author (Learning Author-it) and contributor to The Language of Technical Communication, The Language of Content Strategy, and The Language of Learning.
Char was well-known among tech comm specialists for her broad expertise across the full spectrum of technical communication, […]